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src="https://www.instantdb.com/img/emails/dec2024/s_DF8F10A9009F2A236BC7D07C4EC05DDA50E4FB82F40AA98593D3B98A1A7EA3DC_1730238267270_instant_header.png" /></p>
<p>Hey crew! It’s time for another edition of Instant News 🙂 Here’s a
slice of what happened in December!</p>
<p><strong>Order by attributes</strong></p>
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src="https://www.instantdb.com/img/emails/dec2024/s_A91D86B3D6F04CFEA63084B83C6E816ADC42104A6822CC9C6258E9D560CDF5F3_1735626509971_image.png" /></p>
<p>Previously, you could order by <code>serverCreatedAt</code>, but not
much else. This is because we didn’t have a way to make
<code>order</code> queries fast.</p>
<p>Once we introduced type checked attributes, suddenly the path for
fast order queries opened up. Starting from <code>0.17.0</code>, you can
use <code>order</code> on type-checked and indexed attributes.</p>
<p>To learn more about how to use order, <a
href="https://www.instantdb.com/docs/instaql#ordering">check out the
docs</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Sign in with Apple</strong></p>
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src="https://www.instantdb.com/img/emails/dec2024/s_A91D86B3D6F04CFEA63084B83C6E816ADC42104A6822CC9C6258E9D560CDF5F3_1735626771452_image.png" /></p>
<p>We’ve had sign in with magic codes, Google, Clerk, and custom auth
flows via the admin SDK. Well now Instant provides support for signing
in with Apple too! We support a popup flow, a web redirect, and a
dedicated React Native flow! <a
href="https://www.instantdb.com/docs/auth/apple?method=web-popup">Learn
more in the docs</a></p>
<p><strong>Type-safe init by default!</strong> We launched type
enforcement on the backend last month and this month we made type-safe
<code>init</code> the default. Previously to get type-safety on the
frontend you had to use a separate <code>init_experimental</code> flow.
Now you can just import your schema and pass it to <code>init</code></p>
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src="https://www.instantdb.com/img/emails/dec2024/s_A91D86B3D6F04CFEA63084B83C6E816ADC42104A6822CC9C6258E9D560CDF5F3_1735627523303_image.png" /></p>
<p>We made sure to do this in a backwards compatible way, so upgrading
to the latest version shouldn’t cause any headaches. To learn more about
backwards compatibility check out our announcement on <a
href="https://discord.com/channels/1031957483243188235/1148279464132890714/1319055607776546918">discord</a>.
And to learn more about how to leverage type-safety <a
href="https://www.instantdb.com/docs/modeling-data">check out our
docs.</a></p>
<p><strong>What’s next?</strong></p>
<p>It’s been an awesome year for us at Instant, the platform has grown
so much thanks to all your feedback. Instant is on completely different
level compared to <a
href="https://discord.com/channels/1031957483243188235/1148279464132890714/1187861605959074014">our
mvp from one year ago</a>. So excited to make another magnitude jump in
2025 and make Instant the new default for folks who want to ship the
best applications fast!</p>
<p>Hope you had a wonderful holidays and looking forward to hacking
together in 2025!</p>
<p><strong>P.S. We’re hiring!</strong></p>
<p>If you’re interested in working on some of the hardest problems for
modern app development drop us a line at founders@instantdb.com with a
resume and a side project you’ve worked on (including a Github is a huge
plus!)</p>
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src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GZd_xO0akAETvju?format=jpg&amp;name=large" /></p>
